Pre-Christmas "Self Reliance" Escape
Understadning Transcendentalist Philosophy
start
Transcending the "Self"
Truly Living
Non-Conformity
Society and Man
Embrace your greatness
Final gift
Question 1/4
"Which of the following best represent the meaning of this quote: "To believe our own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, -- that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,..." (Paragraph 1)
Emerson is saying that thoughts do not matter and to not express one's desires and views
Emerson is saying that expressing one's views to others is a good thing and that more people should do this or they will regret not taking the opportunity to do so
Emerson is saying that humans are self-centered and only think of themselves whic will eventually be their undoing.
Question 2/4
Which of the following best represent the meaning of this quote: "The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried" (Paragraph 2)
We all have our own personal contribution we make to this world, and we must know what this is ourselves.
The world will shape what we are bound to do in life.
Not everyone has something valuable to contribute in this world.
Question 3/4
Which of the following best represents this quote from paragraph 2? "We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents."
People live up to their full potential
People do not care to live up to their full potential
People are afraid to stand up for what they beleive in
Question 4/4
Gifts to decorate!
continue
Incorrect!You get coal.
back
Missions
Truly Living
Society and Man
Nonconformity
Embrace Your Greatness
Final gift
Question 1/4
In Paragraphs 4-5, Emerson states: "But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness..." and "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." How does he define society?
Society is what offers security beause rules are important
Society shapes us into who we are because you shouldn't be all willy nilly in what you think
Society decides what we think because ur taxes ensure this and group think is the way to be.
Society is oppressive basically... "Damn the man" think for yourself!
Question 2/4
Emerson states, " Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." and " Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. " and "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature."
Question 3/4
Emerson states, " What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." and "The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. "
Write the wrong answer here
Write the correct answer here
Write the wrong answer here
Write the wrong answer here
Question 4/4
Emerson states: " The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them."
We do not speak because we are afraid of whatg others will say
If your past actions are bad, you have no place to speak up for what is right
We do not trust ourselves to speak our mnind because we do not wish to disappoint
We do not speak because we truly know nothing
Gifts to decorate!
continue
Wrong!
Bad kidslist
back
Missions
Truly Living
Society and Man
Non-Conformity
Embrace Your Greatness
Final gift
Question 1/4
Watch the following video and choose the passage that best summarizes it
Great leaders change their views and see things differently as needed
Great leaders are consistent in word
Great leaders are understood
Great leaders are not afraid to speak
Question 2/4
What did Emerson take from nature and apply to man?
Nature is not perfect nor is man
Emerson was a panthesist and saw nature and man as being perfect representations of God
Man has to be in social contract to be civilized
It is in man's nature to not be good.
Question 3/4
How did Emerson define self-reliance?
Self love
resistance and obstinance
obediance and faith
remoteness and non-conformity
Question 4/4
How does Emerson see the past versus the present?
Our past holds us back and we should listen to the aboriginal self which is in the present.
Our present holds us back if we do not consider the past
Listen to the authorities in the present
The past guides the present
Gifts to decorate!
continue
Incorrect!You lose gifts.
back
Missions
Truly Living
Society and Man
Non-Conformity
Embrace Your Greatness
Final gift
Question 1/4
Emerson defines prayer as the following: "Prayer looks abroad and asks for some foreign addition to come through some foreign virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous." But prayer is " the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft." What does this mean?
We should ask for miracles
Prayer should be to ask for things
Prayer is divine self-talk with God and when we are truly one
Prayer can be self-centered
Question 2/4
Emerson says "As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect." (11 paragrsaphs from the end). What is his view on organized religion?
All religious affiliations are important
Religion is all the same
Organized religion is what ruins a relatinships with God
He is agnostic.
Question 3/4
Emerson said that "traveling is a fool's paradise....We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have flourished. It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model." He is asking Americans to do what?
Appreciate art and culture but create what represents you and not others
Do not appreciate travel and isolate yourself
Be inspired by what you see on travels and then use it to create
Traveling is what helps us to become who we are
Question 4/4
At the end, Emerson says "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." Relying on government to
Owning property is
Write the correct answer here
Write the wrong answer here
Write the wrong answer here
Gifts to decorate!
continue
Incorrect!Smokey chimney.
back
Missions
Truly Living
Society and Man
Non-Conformity
Embrace Your Greatness
Decorate
Merry Christmas!
Do you want to leave without decorating your Christmas tree?
exit
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Pre-Christmas "Self Reliance" Escape
Understadning Transcendentalist Philosophy
start
Transcending the "Self"
Truly Living
Non-Conformity
Society and Man
Embrace your greatness
Final gift
Question 1/4
"Which of the following best represent the meaning of this quote: "To believe our own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, -- that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,..." (Paragraph 1)
Emerson is saying that thoughts do not matter and to not express one's desires and views
Emerson is saying that expressing one's views to others is a good thing and that more people should do this or they will regret not taking the opportunity to do so
Emerson is saying that humans are self-centered and only think of themselves whic will eventually be their undoing.
Question 2/4
Which of the following best represent the meaning of this quote: "The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried" (Paragraph 2)
We all have our own personal contribution we make to this world, and we must know what this is ourselves.
The world will shape what we are bound to do in life.
Not everyone has something valuable to contribute in this world.
Question 3/4
Which of the following best represents this quote from paragraph 2? "We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents."
People live up to their full potential
People do not care to live up to their full potential
People are afraid to stand up for what they beleive in
Question 4/4
Gifts to decorate!
continue
Incorrect!You get coal.
back
Missions
Truly Living
Society and Man
Nonconformity
Embrace Your Greatness
Final gift
Question 1/4
In Paragraphs 4-5, Emerson states: "But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness..." and "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." How does he define society?
Society is what offers security beause rules are important
Society shapes us into who we are because you shouldn't be all willy nilly in what you think
Society decides what we think because ur taxes ensure this and group think is the way to be.
Society is oppressive basically... "Damn the man" think for yourself!
Question 2/4
Emerson states, " Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." and " Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. " and "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature."
Question 3/4
Emerson states, " What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." and "The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. "
Write the wrong answer here
Write the correct answer here
Write the wrong answer here
Write the wrong answer here
Question 4/4
Emerson states: " The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them."
We do not speak because we are afraid of whatg others will say
If your past actions are bad, you have no place to speak up for what is right
We do not trust ourselves to speak our mnind because we do not wish to disappoint
We do not speak because we truly know nothing
Gifts to decorate!
continue
Wrong!
Bad kidslist
back
Missions
Truly Living
Society and Man
Non-Conformity
Embrace Your Greatness
Final gift
Question 1/4
Watch the following video and choose the passage that best summarizes it
Great leaders change their views and see things differently as needed
Great leaders are consistent in word
Great leaders are understood
Great leaders are not afraid to speak
Question 2/4
What did Emerson take from nature and apply to man?
Nature is not perfect nor is man
Emerson was a panthesist and saw nature and man as being perfect representations of God
Man has to be in social contract to be civilized
It is in man's nature to not be good.
Question 3/4
How did Emerson define self-reliance?
Self love
resistance and obstinance
obediance and faith
remoteness and non-conformity
Question 4/4
How does Emerson see the past versus the present?
Our past holds us back and we should listen to the aboriginal self which is in the present.
Our present holds us back if we do not consider the past
Listen to the authorities in the present
The past guides the present
Gifts to decorate!
continue
Incorrect!You lose gifts.
back
Missions
Truly Living
Society and Man
Non-Conformity
Embrace Your Greatness
Final gift
Question 1/4
Emerson defines prayer as the following: "Prayer looks abroad and asks for some foreign addition to come through some foreign virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous." But prayer is " the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft." What does this mean?
We should ask for miracles
Prayer should be to ask for things
Prayer is divine self-talk with God and when we are truly one
Prayer can be self-centered
Question 2/4
Emerson says "As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect." (11 paragrsaphs from the end). What is his view on organized religion?
All religious affiliations are important
Religion is all the same
Organized religion is what ruins a relatinships with God
He is agnostic.
Question 3/4
Emerson said that "traveling is a fool's paradise....We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have flourished. It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model." He is asking Americans to do what?
Appreciate art and culture but create what represents you and not others
Do not appreciate travel and isolate yourself
Be inspired by what you see on travels and then use it to create
Traveling is what helps us to become who we are
Question 4/4
At the end, Emerson says "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." Relying on government to
Owning property is
Write the correct answer here
Write the wrong answer here
Write the wrong answer here
Gifts to decorate!
continue
Incorrect!Smokey chimney.
back
Missions
Truly Living
Society and Man
Non-Conformity
Embrace Your Greatness
Decorate
Merry Christmas!
Do you want to leave without decorating your Christmas tree?
exit
back